Re: Lexicons and Langauge Borrowing
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 19, 1999, 10:54 |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:
> Holophrases, wasn't he the villain in the Book of Judith?!
That's Holofernes :-)
From David Crystal's Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics:
("holophrase" is first described as the one-word first stage of child
language)
"Holophrasis is also sometimes identified in adult utterances where
there is no internal structural contrastivity, such as _thanks_,
_please_, _sorry_."
> "Break someone's leg."
> - Old Orc Saying.
I like that!
Irina
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